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published. We hope, the scholars will have a dispassionate glance at the arguments and remove their wrong conceptions and prejudices. If they find any shortcoming or error, they will kindly draw our attention towards them. The traditional meaning of the Rgvedic hymn which appears on page 22, is different from which is accepted by Shri Jyoti Prasad Jain; and we are aware of it. But we know this also that the interpreta. tion given by the author is not entirely baseless. Some non-Jaina writers also give the same interpretation. I invite the attention of the scholars especially to this problem. Even if we take it for granted that the interpretation of the said hymn, given by the author is not correct, still other arguments presented by him are strong enough to prove the antiquity and independence of Jainism,
Dalsakh Malvania,
Secretary, Jain Cultural Research Society,
Varanasi
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